Neil Young is definetly a Bernie Bro.
“Time waits for no one.” “Rust never sleeps.“
Neil Young plans to keep on resistin’ in the free world. Just weeks after the Canadian rocker officially became a dual citizen of the United States as well, he’s penned an excoriating letter to Donald Trump, calling him “a disgrace to my country” and endorsing Bernie Sanders for president.
Seems Neil Young (now 74) plans to keep on Rocking till he reaches room temperture.
I first listened to Neil Young in 1966. He was in the Buffalo Springfield. I was at a friends house where I smoked this gummy stuff that a friend of his older brother had brought back from overseas. For years afterword I was a big fan of his music and his persona. So many times in my own privacy I would rip out “Cinnamon Girl” on my air guitar. He was Grunge before there was Grunge.
The very last CD I ever purchased (of any artist) was Silver and Gold way back in the year 2000. It was mostly a collection of love songs to his the 3rd wife Pegi. I bought it because it reflected how I was feeling about my wife and the family we were raising together so late in our lives. Young unceremoniously dumped her after 36 years of marriage in 2014. She died of cancer in 2019.
Neil recently became a U.S. citizen. In his “excoriatung” letter to President Trump he told hin in no uncertain terms not to use his song “Rocking in the Free World”. Like Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” if you listen to the lyrics it’s in no way a song about American exceptionalism. Coming out during the administration of H.W. Bush he sings of the homeless and the drug addicted, mocking his “thousand points of light”. I do agree that permission should be obtained before an artists song should be used in a political campaign. And just because it’s a rocking song and the chorus sounds pro-American is no excuse not to read all the lyrics.
Neil Young like Springsteen make music popular enough that people buy it in quanities that has made him a millionaire many times over. Enough to insulate him from the reality that California is #4 in the income gap between rich and poor. That cities like San Francisco have become actual shitholes, homelessness is at an all time high, illegal aliens have more rights then American citizens. And guess what Neil, California is ruled by your far left Democrats. You’re blinded by an ideology that because of your wealth and celebrity status you’re totally immune to its consequences.
Old age is unavoidable, but growing old filled with hate will turn a person at any age very ugly both inside and out.
Neil hasn’t spoken to David Crosby ever since he dissed his new squeeze. Crosby for his part would like to get CSN&Y back together simply because of their mutual hatred of Donald Trump. And to go on tour in support of Bolshevik Bernie.
A long time ago I was once one of your biggest fans. A long time ago.
Eat shit Neil.